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Super intelligence rots your brain
How to use AI without the decline?
AI is slowly eating up your skills, brainpower and even motivation. This can turn deadly if not stopped at the core.
It’s like a mental headshot with a nerf-gun. No wonder decline in LLM quality is called nerfing. Now we’re mostly nerfing ourselves.
Steve Jobs famously said, that:
a computer is like a bicycle for the mind.
It empowers you to move faster, but you’re still using your legs. If we extrapolate that analogy, then AI is like a mobility scooter for the brain for someone who can walk just fine. You’re moving, but you’re not exercising. And a lot of that movement is not even controlled by you anymore. Think Eric Cartman in that famous South Park episode.
A bicycle amplifies your effort while a scooter takes over completely. There is no effort to amplify.
Your brain has no chance
The Your Brain on Chat GPT(1) MIT study from 2025 confirms that. The group using LLMs the most showed weakest brain connectivity. Most couldn’t even quote…
